Year Round School By Anna Quindlen Analysis

Furthermore, federal assistance is also a cause of hunger. According to a study from the nation’s largest food bank operator, the number of Americans in need of food aid has jumped 46 percent in the three years. A growing number of people have had to make difficult choices about what to spend their money on. “These are choices that no one should have to make, but particularly households with children” (Escarra). The government and the community can help in many ways. Insufficient nutrition has adverse effects on the physical, behavioral and mental health, and academic performance of

Putting food on the table may become a difficult task putting the family at risk for hunger (Martin, 2011).

Most schools in America today follow the traditional 180-day schooling system. This system was started in the 19th century when schooling for children began. There was a 10-week summer vacation for the students to help their families on the farm for harvesting. In March of 2009, President Barak Obama suggested to the public his Race to the Top program. The program is to extend the school hours or extend the school days. “We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day,” he says. His reason is the students of school today will not be equipped for the 21st century if we continue to use the traditional

For many individuals in our Vietnamese community whom grew up in Vietnam, they know what it is like to go hungry for several days due to being unable to buy food. In order to find a better lifestyle for their families, they immigrated to the United States. However, for many families in America, the feeling of hunger is becoming a common occurrence due to being food-insecure. The definition of food insecurity according to the American Institute of Nutrition is “the state of being unable to get reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food”. The holidays are supposed to be a time to celebrate, and to share a meal with others. But for a number of families, they’re met with a familiar feeling of hunger. This may cause them to suffer emotionally from being unable to feast at the holidays. Those that are not living on the edge of poverty will not understand how much financial pressure is put on vulnerable families as they relied on schools to provide free meals to their children. The Food & Nutrition Service (FNS) runs a program that covers a portion of low-income children with meals over their summer; there isn’t a national program that covers the holiday break. This puts additional stress on low-income families, as they have to find ways to provide food, along with getting their children cared for. Food insecurity

     The possibility of year round schools has been a hot debate topic for quite some time. The question is, is the idea of year round schools acceptable considering all the potential drawbacks? Year round schooling can be disruptive to both the family of the students and the teachers themselves, it can be too costly for a large group of people, and year round schools do not provide the same opportunity for learning as the traditional school year does. For several reasons, the traditional school year, which runs for ten months instead of eleven, is more beneficial in comparison to year round schooling.

In Anna Quindlen’s essay, “Schools Out For Summer”, she writes about the problems of childhood hunger and how to solve it here in America. During the summer, school ends and kids don’t get lunch everyday as if they would while it was in session. The author uses many words and ideas to convey the point she is making in the writing to persuade the reader.

Many people, including President Barack Obama believe that year round schooling is the best option for American students, because the year round system gives students equal amount of time in school, while increasing the efficiency of a single school building (Ave 1B). “More than two million students in some three thousand U.S. schools attend year round programs in 41 states” (Lawson 48). This astonishing number seems large, but really is only 2% of students in the United States. Many of the perceived advantages of year round schooling revolve around cost and learning efficiency, but in reality the traditional system gives essentially equal

The idea of having a year round school schedule has been thought about at the state level throughout the country for many years, especially in the past two decades. The driving idea behind the argument is that if year round school is put into place, there would be an increase in academic performance because students will not forget what they learned so easily. This change of schedule will obviously have a lasting effect on society, with child care, vacations, regular living, and social life would have a major change on every family. Other operations would have a dramatic change if summer vacation would be taken away. Federal and state government, churches, businesses, the school’s community, and public

Anna Quindlen’s essay “School’s Out for Summer,” is about some families that cannot afford food throughout the summer. Her essay is describing how America should be able to feed our people. She tells about food shortages and why people can’t afford it sometimes. “Food banks reported that most of their clients are minimum wage workers that who can’t afford enough to eat on their salaries”.(paragraph 8 second line) She is using evidence from a company explaining that most workers who lives on minimum wage aren’t able to afford enough food because they only make enough to pay for rent most of the time.

“The agriculture Department estimated in 1999 that twelve million children were hungry or at risk of going hungry.” She proclaimed. The cause of that could be because parents who can’t afford or find service programs to park their vacationing children in front of the television, lock the door, and go to work hoping for

The one thing that we all need is Food. In the U.S. and all over the world there are many people who lack the funds to buy food and millions of starving children. Anna states in her essay that most kids have trouble getting food when school is out because that is the primary source that provides breakfast and lunch. “Summer is really ground zero in the battle to keep kids fed.” (pg 224)

In the essay, “School’s Out for Summer,” Anna Quindlen asserts that many children are not getting fed in the United States. “But only three million are getting lunches through the federal summer lunch program,” Anna informs as she theorizes that many more children are starving without the school’s free or reduced lunch during the Summer months. Although, the average person always considers the winter break to be the worst on the hungry; however, Anna argues differently saying, “but while the Christmas holidays make for the heartrending copy, summer is really ground zero in the battle to keep kids fed.” This is likely due to the fact that most working families receive Christmas bonuses during the Holiday break, but in the summer time those same

One in four families use food assistance (or food stamps). Poor children in this area with limited food supplies at home often use free lunches and breakfasts at their school which are in place for that precise purpose of giving children nutrition and the calories they are often lacking.

Large families will struggle to get enough food for them to get by. Even if they go to multiple food pantries, which most don’t because they lack means of transportation, they will still struggle to get enough food for their family. Even if they could get close to enough food from food pantries, they still don’t know where their next meal will come from. Food pantries most of the time are not their only source of food, but most families don’t make enough to get enough food even for themselves. Any size family can get from 50-150 pounds of food from local food pantries, meaning that large families (5 or more people) would still need approximately 675-700 more pounds of food per

The article, “Should children study in the summer holidays?” (Jackson, 2017) discusses the pros and cons of continuing a child’s education throughout their summer vacation. In favor of this idea was Vivien Stiles, a professional tutor for Kumon, who argued that studying over the summer would help children ease back into a full school year. Stiles continued to explain the program as a two day school week which teaches Mathematics and English. The average time it takes for each student to complete their homework for their class is between 15 and 90 minutes. Others, like Tanith Carey, fear that extending classroom education into the summer may overwhelm some young minds. She explained how her daughter felt so overwhelmed by her education experience she tried to deny an award she won because there was too much that surrounded the acceptance of that award. Once Carey realized how much stress the extra schooling during the summer was causing her daughter, she removed her from the tutoring program so she could play and experience a stress free childhood. Over years the results have been quite positive for Carey and her two daughters as they have both found passions in the arts and are leading healthy happy lives. She stresses the importance of learning not only in classrooms, but through nature, exploring, and experiencing the natural environment around them. According to Carey some parents are overlooking how much their children really learn when they are able to explore